March[edit]

March 10 � The UN warns that the world is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis
since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine
in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.[4]
March 29 � The United Kingdom triggers article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, starting
the Brexit Negotiations, the talks for the United Kingdom to Leave the European
Union.[5]
March 30 � SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
[6][7]
April[edit]
April 6 � In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town,
the U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria.
Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage
U.S.�Russia ties.[8]
April 13 � In the 2017 Nangarhar airstrike the U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB, the
world's largest non-nuclear weapon, at an ISIL base in Afghanistan.
May[edit]
May 12 � Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware
cyberattack,[9] which goes on to affect at least 150 countries.[10]
May 22 � A terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester,
England kills 22 people and injures over 100.[11]
June[edit]
June 1 � Amidst wide criticism, the U.S. announces its decision to withdraw from
Paris Climate Agreement in due time.[12]
June 7 � Two terrorist attacks were simultaneously carried out by five terrorists
belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against the Iranian
Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, Iran,
leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 wounded. It became the first ISIL attack in Iran.
June 10 � The 2017 World Expo is opened in Astana, Kazakhstan.[13]
June 12 � American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17
months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.[14][15]
June 18 � Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fired six surface-to-
surface mid-range ballistic missile from domestic bases targeting ISIL forces in
the Syrian Deir ez-Zor Governorate in response to the terrorist attacks in Tehran
earlier that month.
June 21 � The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq, is destroyed by the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant.[16]
June 25 � The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 cases
of cholera.
June 27 � A series of cyberattacks using the Petya malware begins, affecting
organizations in Ukraine.[17]
July[edit]
July 4 � Russia and China urge North Korea to halt its missile and nuclear programs
after it successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile.[18][19]
July 7 � The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is voted for by 122 of
the 193 UN member states.[20]
July 10 � Iraqi Civil War (2014�present): Mosul is declared fully liberated from
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[21]
August[edit]
August 5 � The UN Security Council unanimously approves fresh sanctions on North
Korean trade and investment.[22]
August 17 � The first observation of a collision of two neutron stars (GW170817)
[23] is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy[24] when both
gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected.[25][26] Data
from the event provided confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the
origin of heavy elements like gold.[27][28]
August 21 � A total solar eclipse (nicknamed "The Great American Eclipse")[29] is
visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States of America,
passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.[30][31][32]
August 25 � ongoing � A military operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
"seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", according to the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights.[33]
August 25�30 � Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4
hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due
to record-breaking floods. At least 90 deaths were recorded,[34][35] and total
damage reaches $198.6 billion (2017 USD), making Harvey the costliest natural
disaster in United States history.[36]